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7286556 Local area network with electrochemical power source  
A power integrated local area network, such as an Ethernet network, is disclosed. The network comprises: a plurality of member network devices; and a central network device configured to...
7283553 Data relay device and multiplex communication system  
A data relay device connected with a plurality of networks is provided with a transmission timing adjusting device for adjusting the timing of transmission of data frames. The relay device provides...
7280824 Wireless communication system  
A wireless communication system according to the invention is to perform communication with a terminal station at a radio frequency higher than a millimeter wave band. The wireless communication...
7280801 Reducing interference between different communication systems sharing a common wireless transmission medium  
In one embodiment, a first wireless communication system conforms to the IEEE 802.15.3 standard and a second wireless communication system conforms to the IEEE 802.11 standard, where the two...
7280555 System and method employing algorithms and protocols for optimizing carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) protocols in wireless networks  
A system and method for achieving enhanced CSMA/CA which improves channel availability and quality of service (QoS) in a wireless communications network. The system and method establish channels to...
7280554 Computer implemented method for assigning a back-off interval to an intermediary network access device  
In one embodiment, the present invention is a computer implemented method for assigning a back-off interval to an intermediary network access device in a Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA)...
7280553 Transceiver and communication method for digital multi carrier communication  
The present invention relates to a transceiver and communication method involving a time division multiple transmission method, which performs data transmission among a plurality of transceivers....
7277451 Recognition scheme for moderating wireless protocols  
Wireless communication networks utilize various communication protocols to exchange data between wireless network devices. Overlapping communication frequencies between data exchange protocols...
7274945 Transmission channel selection apparatus  
The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network...
7274708 Random medium access methods with backoff adaptation to traffic  
Using low PF values in conjunction with traffic-adapted contention windows leads to substantial decreases in delay and jitter. In general, adaptation to traffic reduces contention or delay: opening...
7274707 Coexistence of stations capable of different modulation schemes in a wireless local area network  
A local-area network is provided where a plurality of OFDM stations and DSSS/CCK-only stations coexist. A beacon signal having a contention-free-period (CFP) is transmitted from an access point to...
7263105 WLAN device and method for interfacing between a MAC sublayer and a physical layer  
A wireless local area network (WLAN) device ( 200 , FIG. 2 ) includes a medium access control (MAC) device ( 204 ) and a physical (PHY) device ( 202 ). The PHY device receives and transmits frames...
7257125 Quality of service half-duplex media access controller  
A computer program product, apparatus, and method for communicating on a half-duplex channel includes transmitting a first frame; terminating transmission of the first frame when a collision is...
7248600 ‘Shield’: protecting high priority channel access attempts in overlapped wireless cells  
A method and system reduce interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells contending for the same medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations. An...
7242693 Method and apparatus for fiber autonegotiation  
A first network device includes a first physical layer device with a first autonegotiation circuit. A bypass timer determines a predetermined period. A second network device includes a second...
7236481 System and method for processing multimedia packets for a network  
The present invention relates to a system and method for multimedia packet processing and, in particular, to a system and method for processing video or audio data in real time or near real time....
7233999 System and method for delivering last mile computing over light from a plurality of network edge locations  
Last mile computing is a cost effective system and method for delivering subscription based multimedia computing, wherein processing is done at network edge and the computed multimedia information...
7233603 Method for performing contention-based access for real-time application and medium access control hierarchy module  
A MAC (Medium Access Control) hierarchy module for performing a back-off procedure for real-time application in a station having a frame to be transmitted in a network including a plurality of...
7233602 Coordination architecture for wireless communication devices using multiple protocols  
A system and methods for coordinating transmissions in a wireless network wherein a plurality of frequency-overlapping protocols are used to exchange information between devices. In this system, a...
7224679 Dynamic update of quality of service (Qos) parameter set  
The present invention provides a system, method, and apparatus for providing improved quality of service in a wireless local area network transmission system, the network comprising at least two...
7218648 Method and apparatus for communicating control data in an asynchronous communications channel  
A communication system communicates control data in unused segments in the data stream of an asynchronous channel. The communication system includes a transmitting unit and a receiving unit. The...
7218641 Method and apparatus for adaptive processing gain for multiple source devices in a communications system  
A method of dynamically adapting the number of available channels in a first set of available channels for use by at least one signal source in a communications system. The method includes the...
7215681 Adaptive channel access for carrier sense multiple access based systems  
In a network including multiple nodes communicating on a channel using CSMA protocol, where each node accesses the channel by occupying at least one time slot in a contention interval, the...
7215659 Remotely-cooperative scheduling solution for moderating wireless protocols  
Wireless communication networks utilize various communication protocols to exchange data between wireless network devices. Overlapping communication frequencies between data exchange protocols...
7209467 Adaptive adjustment of backoff times in wireless network communications  
A wireless network, including a plurality of network elements such as a wireless access point ( 9 ), and computer stations ( 2, 4, 6 ), is disclosed. The wireless network operates so that each...
7206320 Method and apparatus for non-centralized network bandwidth management  
A system and method of providing distributed video and/or audio communication over a network, such as a power-line communications (PLC) network. By way of example, the network is divided into...
7197045 CMTS architecture based on ethernet interface locatable in a fiber node  
A communication device ( 116, 216, 316, 416 ) for a communications network having a first integrated circuit (IC) ( 141, 244, 344, 444 ) including one or more receivers ( 136, 236, 336 ) and a...
7194528 Method and apparatus for processing inbound data within a powerline based communication system  
A powerline based communication system includes a powerline termination module, a plurality of powerline gateways, and a plurality of powerline nodes. The powerline termination module manages data...
7187692 Information communication system, noncontact IC card, and IC chip  
An information communication system which includes a master station and a plurality of slave stations and enables reduction of the processing time of the whole system. When transmitting a response...
7187691 Securing the channel for a QoS manager in a CSMA/CA ad hoc network  
A method of securing the channel by a QoS manager in an ad hoc network having a contention protocol including a normal priority resolution period having multiple priority resolution slots therein,...
7187668 Devices, softwares and methods for advancing scheduling of next contention session upon premature termination of contention free exchange  
Devices, softwares and methods advance the scheduling of a next contention session upon premature termination of a contention free session. A Hybrid Coordinator detects when the exchange of...
7184429 Adaptive call routing system  
A system, method and apparatus are presented for the adaptive optimization of call quality and marginal profit in a telephony over data network, where the network contains a plurality of...
7181534 Address resolution protocol to map internet protocol addresses to a node transport identifier  
A system and method automatically maps network addresses of a first protocol for a plurality of network elements in a first network to network addresses of a second protocol. A table is defined and...
7180905 Access method for periodic contention-free sessions  
An access method for periodic contention-free sessions (PCFS) reduces interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells contending for the same medium. Each cell includes a...
7180861 Strict priority distributed coordination function in wireless networks  
A system and method for prioritizing the transmission of packets in a wireless local area network. A station selects a packet from local priority queuing and identifies the priority bits of the...
7177273 Communication system with a shared medium  
A shared medium provides a limited amount of bandwidth for communication between nodes. A contention based access protocol is used to access the medium from the nodes. A guaranteed amount of the...
7173903 Vehicle active network with communication path redundancy  
A vehicle active network ( 12 ) communicatively couples devices ( 14–20 ) within a vehicle ( 10 ). Device operation is independent of the interface ( 22–28 ) of the device ( 14–20 ) with the...
7170853 Vehicle active network topologies  
A vehicle active network ( 12 ) communicatively couples devices ( 14–20 ) within a vehicle ( 10 ). Device operation is independent of the interface ( 22–28 ) of the device ( 14–20 ) with the...
7167484 Centralized coordination point for wireless communication devices using multiple protocols  
Wireless communication networks utilize various communication protocols to exchange data between wireless network devices. Overlapping communication frequencies between data exchange protocols...
7161928 Method and apparatus for a CDMA random access communication system  
In a system in which multiple remote units compete for limited communication resources, a remote unit accesses the system by randomly selecting a first sequence from a set of predetermined...
7142556 Media access control scheme for serially linked devices  
A network includes a master station and terminal devices each coupled using a serial data interface to a modem that in turn couples to a twisted pair line. These elements communicate information...
7142553 Off-line broadband network interface  
A network interface is presented that receives packet data from a shared medium and accomplishes the signal processing required to convert the data packet to host computer formatted data separately...
7139552 Mailbox answerphone service for mobile communications  
A service module is provided for use in a mobile communications system. The service module provides services to a calling user such as an answering service comprising several individual mailboxes....
7136392 System and method for ordering data messages having differing levels of priority for transmission over a shared communication channel  
Stations of a communication network have internal queues for accumulating and transmitting data messages over a shared communication channel. Each queue within a station accumulates and transmits...
7133381 Interference suppression methods for 802.11  
An 802.11 source station transmits a signal with the duration field other than that required for the transmission to prevent transmission by other stations during known sequences. Thus, the source...
7130614 Mobile unit attachment/update to cellular communication network  
A method for reducing IP level signaling and radio resource load during the attachment or update L3 of a mobile unit to a cellular wireless communication network is disclosed wherein access network...
7126915 Network traffic regulation  
The invention provides a traffic regulation technique for media that functions within access protocols by making a percentage of total communication capacity of the media unavailable to end-users...
7123624 System and method for single-point to fixed-multipoint data communication  
Systems and methods for single-point to fixed-multipoint communication. The invention dynamically allocates bandwidth based on traffic demands, thus providing efficient bandwidth utilization,...
7113497 Bandwidth management in a wireless network  
In accordance with the preferred embodiment, an access point provides dynamic load balancing of network bandwidth between access points within the 802.11 wireless LAN. The access point uses the...
7110418 Method to ensure the quality of preferred communication services, a local network, a station, a local network controller and a program module therefor  
The invention relates to a method to ensure the quality of preferred (communications) services, especially voice services, in a local data network with different types of services, where data...
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